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SK: I am a qualified architect and practiced for a number of years - it is definitely the subject about which I am most passionate and also about which I know the most. The relationships between perspective, field of view, light and built form remain intriguing.

SK: My Arca Swiss D4 geared tripod head... a fantastic piece of precision engineering that is indispensable when you have to level a camera a hundred times in a day! Also, large format film remains an astonishingly beautiful medium.

DBW: What do you find the most challenging part of being an architectural photographer?

SK: There are many challenges, the weather is a constant issue in this country, but the biggest challenge is to produce an image that correlates to the architect's original vision for the project. This can be very difficult as there are often aspects of a completed project that the architect feels unhappy with. However, this makes the job very satisfying when you do make those images that succeed.

SK: I very much enjoy photographing bridges, the most recent one I have shot was by Moxon Architects in Deptford - a stunning structure. (See top image)

DBW: Is there a building you would really like to get a chance to shoot?

SK: The Tricorn Centre that once stood in Portsmouth. The systematic destruction of Brutalistbuildings throughout the country is very sad.

(Heygate Abstracted, personal project)

DBW: What advice would you give to an aspiring architectural photographer?

SK: Get out and do it as often as you can - this is the only way to begin to understand how a building responds to different lightingconditions, and to develop your own vision. Also, study the types of images that are used to represent buildings - you need to know what the rules are even if you then decide to break them.